#4 Farish Mk2A BFK Simple Conversion

Entry posted by Kaolin2FS in Coaches November 19, 2021

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Given Graham Farish produce a Mk2A BSO it’s not surprising that they haven’t produced another half-brake variant. The BFK is a very useful model though; it was a staple of many loco-hauled services on secondary routes and appeared in a range of liveries during its life.

Fortunately converting a coach from BSO to BFK is a fairly straightforward business. I took a second-hand Farish model (cat no. 374-680), applied yellow line transfers to half the length, added ‘1’s to the passenger doors, swapped out the open seats for a corridor insert (from a Mk2 FK I’d used in another project) and swapped out the passenger windows for ones with first class markings on them (from the same FK). The only other alteration, aside from the 2mmFS wheels, was to correct the roof vents. These were carefully filed and sanded back before drilling holes at the correct alignment, adding track pins for vents, and painting.

Hopefully it looks convincing; now I only need to decide whether to add ScotRail branding or not!
Graham